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- 0:00Speaker 1: But it's the state that the remains were found in
- 0:04Speaker 1: and some of the other things that were found in
- 0:08Speaker 1: conjunction with these remains that raise a lot of questions.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Hey, what's going on, guys, mister ballin here.
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- 0:53Speaker 1: Dyatlov Pass incident. It's about a bunch of hikers that
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- 2:01Speaker 2: So today we're going to talk.
- 2:02Speaker 1: About one of the more well known unsolved mysteries, and
- 2:06Speaker 1: it is the very strange disappearance of two college students
- 2:11Speaker 1: from the Netherlands who go to Panama, and they've saved
- 2:15Speaker 1: up all this money to go on this trip, like
- 2:17Speaker 1: they were working in a cafe for the six months
- 2:20Speaker 1: leading up to this trip that they were going to
- 2:21Speaker 1: finance mostly themselves. They'd mapped out all these different places
- 2:25Speaker 1: they're going to go in Panama.
- 2:26Speaker 2: It was going to be like.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Part vacation, part like mission trip where they were going
- 2:31Speaker 1: to be helping out with different charities and the different
- 2:33Speaker 1: villages they go to, but also enjoying the travel. These
- 2:37Speaker 1: girls were very close, they were highly intelligent, they were
- 2:40Speaker 1: just wonderful smart people, and they were really excited about
- 2:44Speaker 1: this trip. And they go to Panama and the first
- 2:48Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago without incident, and at some point
- 2:52Speaker 1: things take a very significant turn for the worst, and
- 2:56Speaker 1: so let's dive in. On March fifteenth, fourteen, Chris Kremers
- 3:01Speaker 1: and Lisia and Brunn, who were both Dutch college students,
- 3:05Speaker 1: head to Panama for a six week long part vacation,
- 3:10Speaker 1: part charitable giving trip. They had mapped out these six
- 3:14Speaker 1: weeks really diligently. They planned to do lots of traveling
- 3:18Speaker 1: and exploring and then also they were going to be
- 3:20Speaker 1: working with different charities along the way as they went
- 3:23Speaker 1: all over Panama, and they were really excited about it.
- 3:25Speaker 1: They had even worked for the six months leading up
- 3:28Speaker 1: to this trip at a cafe to raise additional money
- 3:30Speaker 1: for this trip. So March fifteenth they arrived in Panama.
- 3:35Speaker 1: The first two weeks they're there go beautifully. They do
- 3:38Speaker 1: some traveling, they're working with different charities, and everything's going
- 3:41Speaker 1: to plan.
- 3:43Speaker 2: And then by the.
- 3:43Speaker 1: Second week they arrived in a little town called Bouquette
- 3:47Speaker 1: and they stay at this hostel.
- 3:50Speaker 2: So that's like a group living situation.
- 3:51Speaker 1: It's pretty common amongst travelers all over the world where
- 3:55Speaker 1: to save money you'll crash at these like almost like
- 3:58Speaker 1: dorms where other travelers and people will stay in the
- 4:01Speaker 1: same room as you. Two weeks in they're in Boquet
- 4:03Speaker 1: and they're living in this hostel. So on April first,
- 4:06Speaker 1: they're in Boquet and they want to go on this
- 4:09Speaker 1: fairly significant hike, which is going to be around this
- 4:14Speaker 1: massive volcano called the Baru Volcano. Up near i guess
- 4:18Speaker 1: the summit of the volcano. There was this amazing overlook
- 4:22Speaker 1: where if you climbed up to it, you could get
- 4:24Speaker 1: a beautiful three hundred and sixty degree view of the
- 4:27Speaker 1: entire area. Prune and Kremer's decide they want to go.
- 4:30Speaker 1: They want to go hike up to that overlook. They
- 4:33Speaker 1: were experienced hikers, but realistically, I don't think they were
- 4:36Speaker 1: taking this hike particularly seriously. It was a hike that
- 4:40Speaker 1: was traditionally a guided hike, meaning usually you went and
- 4:44Speaker 1: did this with a local who could make sure you
- 4:45Speaker 1: didn't leave the path or you know, fall where you
- 4:48Speaker 1: didn't know there was a cliff or something. They opt
- 4:51Speaker 1: to do this on their own. So they head out
- 4:53Speaker 1: and they actually they bring the hostile owner headed dog,
- 4:57Speaker 1: and they decided to bring that dog along with them.
- 4:59Speaker 1: It was a very friendly dog. So Krammer's proon and
- 5:03Speaker 1: the dog head off for this hike up this volcano.
- 5:07Speaker 1: They had a digital camera with them in addition to water,
- 5:11Speaker 1: and they had their phones. They had all the different
- 5:13Speaker 1: kind of basic supplies. They had a camera and so
- 5:15Speaker 1: this is important because they take.
- 5:17Speaker 2: A bunch of pictures as they begin this journey.
- 5:19Speaker 1: So that night, the dog returns to the hostel, but
- 5:24Speaker 1: the girls aren't with the dog, and so this alerts
- 5:27Speaker 1: the owners of the hostel. But they they searched the area,
- 5:31Speaker 1: like I guess, the immediate area for the girls. They
- 5:34Speaker 1: can't find them, and they decide we'll just wait until
- 5:37Speaker 1: the morning and see if they turn up. The next morning,
- 5:41Speaker 1: they don't turn up. Additionally, the parents of the girls,
- 5:46Speaker 1: they were used to getting very regular text messages from
- 5:50Speaker 1: these girls. They kind of let them know that everything
- 5:51Speaker 1: was okay, and the text messages stopped, and so that
- 5:56Speaker 1: alerted the parents as well.
- 5:57Speaker 2: By the second day.
- 5:58Speaker 1: After they've they've gone missing, and so authorities are alerted.
- 6:01Speaker 1: Search crews were organized on foot for the first day,
- 6:05Speaker 1: so April second, there are search crews all over the
- 6:07Speaker 1: place looking for these girls. Can't find anything. The next
- 6:11Speaker 1: day they set up aerial search teams. They're scouring the
- 6:15Speaker 1: jungle looking for signs of these girls.
- 6:16Speaker 2: No sign to them.
- 6:17Speaker 1: The search continues, and then on April sixth, the parents
- 6:22Speaker 1: of Kremers and Froon they arrive in Panama. They immediately
- 6:26Speaker 1: offer a thirty thousand dollars reward for any information about
- 6:30Speaker 1: their daughters, which is a ton of money in Panama.
- 6:35Speaker 1: It's roughly equivalent to about a half a million dollars
- 6:37Speaker 1: in a developed country. I mean with thirty thousand US
- 6:42Speaker 1: dollars in Panama. I mean you could buy land, you
- 6:44Speaker 1: could buy a house, you could start a business. I
- 6:46Speaker 1: mean this is big money. And considering many people, especially
- 6:50Speaker 1: in that area, we're day laborers that were working for
- 6:53Speaker 1: like less than ten dollars a day. I mean, you
- 6:56Speaker 1: would think that that type of reward for just information
- 7:00Speaker 1: about these girls would would incite hundreds of people just
- 7:07Speaker 1: on their own go looking for these girls. And if
- 7:09Speaker 1: you consider too that, I mean, this is a small town.
- 7:12Speaker 1: I mean people, news travels fast. You know, this is
- 7:15Speaker 1: the area. They probably grew up, and they know the
- 7:17Speaker 1: area really well. The idea that with with with an
- 7:21Speaker 1: amazing incentive, the financial incentive, and just the fact that
- 7:24Speaker 1: they know this area really really well. It's it was
- 7:27Speaker 1: odd that nothing was turning up. There were no leads
- 7:31Speaker 1: coming in. Three months go by and there is not
- 7:35Speaker 1: a sign of these girls anywhere. They have vanished. There's
- 7:39Speaker 1: no leads, nothing's been found. You know, obviously, at this
- 7:43Speaker 1: point the family and investigators are at this point, I'm
- 7:47Speaker 1: pretty much accepted that they're they're probably deceased at this point,
- 7:50Speaker 1: but they're looking for them.
- 7:51Speaker 2: They want to know what happened.
- 7:53Speaker 1: And a local woman finds fruns backpack or blue backpack,
- 8:00Speaker 1: five miles away from where the girls were supposedly hiking,
- 8:05Speaker 1: or where they had intended to hike. Navigating a jungle
- 8:08Speaker 1: is exceptionally difficult.
- 8:11Speaker 2: Even with the right equipment, even knowing what you're doing.
- 8:13Speaker 1: The travel is so slow, cutting through the growth on
- 8:18Speaker 1: the ground, there's animals to contend with. There's even though
- 8:23Speaker 1: it's incredibly moist and there's lots of moisture in a jungle,
- 8:28Speaker 1: the water oftentimes can't be drank, so the risk of
- 8:31Speaker 1: dehydration is really high. The jungle that they were in
- 8:34Speaker 1: was incredibly mountainous, and so in addition to just navigating
- 8:37Speaker 1: a jungle, you're dealing with pretty significant elevation changes. I mean,
- 8:41Speaker 1: it is a treacherous place to be navigating, absolutely treacherous.
- 8:46Speaker 2: And for them to have moved.
- 8:48Speaker 1: Five miles through dense jungle is it's incredible.
- 8:54Speaker 2: That is almost unbelievable.
- 8:56Speaker 1: But nonetheless, their backpack is found, you know, five miles away.
- 9:00Speaker 1: In addition, the woman who found the backpack, you know,
- 9:03Speaker 1: she's a local woman, and she said, you know, I'm
- 9:05Speaker 1: out in this area a fair amount and I've not
- 9:08Speaker 1: seen this backpack.
- 9:10Speaker 2: I saw it today and I picked it up and
- 9:12Speaker 2: reported it.
- 9:13Speaker 1: But it just means that the backpack probably had not
- 9:17Speaker 1: been sitting there for very long.
- 9:18Speaker 2: It had been quite.
- 9:19Speaker 1: Placed there within the past couple of days, let's say,
- 9:22Speaker 1: which doesn't really provide that much clarity, but it adds
- 9:26Speaker 1: to the kind of intrigue around what actually happened. So
- 9:29Speaker 1: the backpack was in great condition, and everything inside the
- 9:33Speaker 1: backpack was very neatly.
- 9:34Speaker 2: Kind of placed.
- 9:36Speaker 1: It looked like someone had very intentionally placed everything in
- 9:40Speaker 1: the bag, zipped it up neatly and put it down
- 9:42Speaker 1: by the riverside to be found.
- 9:44Speaker 2: It didn't have the look and feel of.
- 9:46Speaker 1: A backpack belonging to two missing people in the Panamanian
- 9:50Speaker 1: jungle that's been missing for the past three months. It
- 9:53Speaker 1: looked like it had just been grabbed off a shelf,
- 9:54Speaker 1: put some stuff in it, and put down. But either way,
- 9:57Speaker 1: inside there was you know, there's sunglasses, there was water bottle,
- 10:00Speaker 1: there was some some underwear that was in there, and
- 10:05Speaker 1: their camera, their digital camera was in there, which is
- 10:08Speaker 1: going to be really important. And both of their phones
- 10:11Speaker 1: were in there, another really important part of this investigation.
- 10:14Speaker 1: So when the initial search was conducted. It was done
- 10:18Speaker 1: with a focus on the volcano area because that's the
- 10:21Speaker 1: last place the girls had been, at least as far
- 10:23Speaker 1: as everybody understood. But now that they found this backpack
- 10:27Speaker 1: five miles away, they had a new area to search,
- 10:29Speaker 1: and so they do. They start searching around the area
- 10:32Speaker 1: around the backpack, and they quickly find some of the
- 10:35Speaker 1: girl's clothing neatly folded on.
- 10:37Speaker 2: The side of a river, but no sign of the girls.
- 10:39Speaker 1: And then another two months go by and they finally
- 10:43Speaker 1: locate in the same rough area that the clothes and the.
- 10:47Speaker 2: Backpack were found.
- 10:49Speaker 1: They actually discover some of the remains of the girls
- 10:52Speaker 1: that DNA confirms it with them, But it's the state
- 10:57Speaker 1: that the remains were found in and some of the
- 11:01Speaker 1: other things that were found in conjunction with these remains
- 11:05Speaker 1: that raise a lot of questions. So of the remains
- 11:09Speaker 1: that were found, DNA proved that some of them were
- 11:14Speaker 1: Chris Kremmer's and Lisan Frun. DNA also showed that mixed
- 11:19Speaker 1: in with some of the bone fragments and pieces of
- 11:23Speaker 1: remains that were found were at least three other people's remains.
- 11:28Speaker 2: So we're talking about five people's remains in the same area.
- 11:32Speaker 1: Also, interestingly, scientists were able to look at the bones
- 11:37Speaker 1: and there were no scratches on the bones. So that's
- 11:40Speaker 1: important if you think about it, you know, because their
- 11:42Speaker 1: bones were found all over the place they had been
- 11:45Speaker 1: broken apart right, Well, if an animal had been.
- 11:48Speaker 2: Responsible, there would have been scratches all over the bones
- 11:51Speaker 2: because they would have broken the bones that way without
- 11:54Speaker 2: those scratches.
- 11:55Speaker 1: The only other way it could happen is if they've
- 11:58Speaker 1: basically been pulverized, basically broken with like blunt force. So
- 12:02Speaker 1: obviously something horrible has happened to these two girls. But
- 12:06Speaker 1: their remains really only show investigators.
- 12:10Speaker 2: That the women had died.
- 12:12Speaker 1: It doesn't show how they died or really anything, And
- 12:16Speaker 1: so investigators needed to look at the other evidence to
- 12:18Speaker 1: try to get a better sense of what actually happened.
- 12:20Speaker 1: And so they look at the phone records and they
- 12:23Speaker 1: can tell that on April first, when they started this hike, initially,
- 12:28Speaker 1: there is a string of distress calls that are sent
- 12:31Speaker 1: within an hour of the hike starting. So whatever happened
- 12:34Speaker 1: to these girls happen almost immediately on their hike. None
- 12:38Speaker 1: of those calls connect over the course of those first
- 12:41Speaker 1: four days as they're trying to reach help via their
- 12:45Speaker 1: cell phone, nothing's connecting, and then Frun's phone dies. Kremer's
- 12:50Speaker 1: phone does not, and they begin they or she begin
- 12:54Speaker 1: turning it off and then turning it on sporadically to
- 12:57Speaker 1: try to get reception. On April sixth, something interesting starts
- 13:00Speaker 1: to happen. Somebody was trying to access Kremer's phone. There
- 13:05Speaker 1: was multiple failed login attempts, and it got to the
- 13:08Speaker 1: point where you weren't even allowed to input any more
- 13:11Speaker 1: more codes.
- 13:12Speaker 2: It was just like locked. The phone locked, so somebody
- 13:14Speaker 2: was unable to get into the phone.
- 13:17Speaker 1: From April seventh to April tenth, there were seventy seven
- 13:21Speaker 1: calls attempted, distress calls attempted, and then on April eleventh,
- 13:26Speaker 1: the phone died and that was it. So in addition
- 13:28Speaker 1: to the phone, they started looking at the camera. And
- 13:32Speaker 1: so when you look at all the pictures they took.
- 13:35Speaker 1: The beginning of the camera role is this wonderful, you know,
- 13:39Speaker 1: montage of these two girls having this great time hiking
- 13:42Speaker 1: up this volcano. And then as night begins to fall,
- 13:46Speaker 1: you can tell that their expressions begin to change a
- 13:49Speaker 1: little bit. It looks like you could begin to see
- 13:51Speaker 1: that maybe something was wrong, perhaps they're loss who.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Don't really know.
- 13:55Speaker 1: But then there's no more pictures taken until April eighth.
- 14:00Speaker 1: Ninety pictures. Over ninety pictures are taken between April eighth
- 14:04Speaker 1: and April tenth.
- 14:05Speaker 2: Which is that period of time where all those.
- 14:07Speaker 1: Distress calls were made on Kremer's phone before Kremer's phone
- 14:11Speaker 1: finally died. The pictures are very strange. There's a lot
- 14:17Speaker 1: of theories about why they took the pictures they did,
- 14:21Speaker 1: but in a nutshell, the pictures, none of them include
- 14:25Speaker 1: pictures of the girls, with the exception of one, which
- 14:28Speaker 1: is the back of Kremer's head and it appears to
- 14:30Speaker 1: be bleeding. The rest are, you know, shots of the landscape,
- 14:34Speaker 1: and they're all taken in total darkness, so they're in
- 14:37Speaker 1: the middle of the jungle in total darkness taking these pictures.
- 14:41Speaker 1: There was one picture that looked like whatever gear they
- 14:46Speaker 1: had had been kind of lined up on.
- 14:47Speaker 2: A rock and someone had taken a picture of it.
- 14:50Speaker 1: There were pictures of candy wrappers, and there also was
- 14:55Speaker 1: a picture that was like looking down into a ravine
- 14:59Speaker 1: that perhaps was a picture of one of the girls
- 15:01Speaker 1: down in the ravine, So it's unclear who's taking the pictures.
- 15:05Speaker 1: It could be the girls, could be one of the girls,
- 15:07Speaker 1: could be a third party.
- 15:08Speaker 2: We don't know.
- 15:09Speaker 1: And then there's a ton of speculation about one picture
- 15:13Speaker 1: in particular, so picture five zero nine, as it's been dubbed,
- 15:17Speaker 1: because that was the number on the camera roll was
- 15:20Speaker 1: deleted from the camera. Now, that in and of itself
- 15:24Speaker 1: is not particularly strange. It's not crazy to think that
- 15:27Speaker 1: these girls might have deleted a picture, right. I mean,
- 15:29Speaker 1: maybe they accidentally snapshot something and they just deleted it.
- 15:33Speaker 1: But it was permanently deleted, right, So if you hit
- 15:36Speaker 1: delete on a digital camera, it's deleted. But a professional
- 15:40Speaker 1: with the right software could reconstruct that image if they
- 15:45Speaker 1: plugged it into a computer. Now, in order to permanently
- 15:49Speaker 1: remove it from your camera, the girls would have had
- 15:53Speaker 1: to connect it to a laptop to a computer and
- 15:56Speaker 1: wipe it that way. They didn't have access to a computer.
- 16:00Speaker 1: At most they might have hit the lead, but it
- 16:02Speaker 1: still would have had that kind of archived, almost ghost
- 16:05Speaker 1: image that a professional investigator could have reconstructed. But when
- 16:09Speaker 1: they went to do that with this deleted image, it.
- 16:12Speaker 2: Was wiped for good.
- 16:13Speaker 1: So someone had managed to professionally wipe one picture, and
- 16:18Speaker 1: it was the last picture on the camera roll. So
- 16:21Speaker 1: the pervading theory here is that these girls got lost
- 16:24Speaker 1: and fell to their death.
- 16:26Speaker 2: But to me, that's totally unsatisfactory.
- 16:29Speaker 1: I believe they were murdered, and I think it's because
- 16:31Speaker 1: there's just too many things indicating.
- 16:33Speaker 2: That foul play was involved.
- 16:35Speaker 1: How did they go five miles across incredibly rugged terrain
- 16:39Speaker 1: that even amongst Navy seals, that would be a very
- 16:42Speaker 1: difficult distance to cover, even with all the right equipment.
- 16:45Speaker 1: How did they without the right equipment, not knowing the area,
- 16:48Speaker 1: without a guide, without even flashlights?
- 16:50Speaker 2: How did they do that? And then let's just assume they.
- 16:54Speaker 1: Managed to go the five miles, Okay, they fall to
- 16:57Speaker 1: their death. Why are their remains one in complete and
- 17:00Speaker 1: two scattered and mixed in with other people's remains.
- 17:04Speaker 2: Why were Kremer's bones bleached? And why weren't there scratch
- 17:08Speaker 2: marks on the bones? I mean, you would think that
- 17:10Speaker 2: in order for their if they'd fallen off.
- 17:12Speaker 1: This cliff, let's say, in order if there remains to
- 17:15Speaker 1: be scattered all over the place and be dismembered, that
- 17:19Speaker 1: an animal would have to be involved if there's no
- 17:22Speaker 1: foul play involved, and there's no scratch marks on the bones,
- 17:25Speaker 1: so an animal couldn't have done it. So there's just
- 17:28Speaker 1: there's lots of questions that go unanswered. And then if
- 17:32Speaker 1: you look at those pictures again, it seems an awful
- 17:36Speaker 1: lot like somebody else was taking those pictures, somebody was
- 17:39Speaker 1: trying to access Kremer's phone towards the end there, and
- 17:42Speaker 1: someone looks like they were using their camera as well,
- 17:45Speaker 1: and then you know the backpack that was found. It
- 17:47Speaker 1: just seems like it was kind of staged. But then again,
- 17:50Speaker 1: like to what end? Why were they giving away the
- 17:52Speaker 1: camera and the phone which kind of led them to
- 17:56Speaker 1: thinking probably this is foul play.
- 17:58Speaker 2: Why would they have placed the backpack?
- 17:59Speaker 1: That doesn't soonerate anybody, It actually just adds more questions
- 18:04Speaker 1: about the case.
- 18:05Speaker 2: So the whole thing is just very confusing.
- 18:07Speaker 1: But the narrative that they simply got lost and fell,
- 18:10Speaker 1: to me, seems like the most far fetched thing out
- 18:13Speaker 1: of all the theories.
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- 18:37Speaker 2: What you think happened in the comments. Thanks,